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libusb-1.0 is an almost-rewrite of the previous stable branch,libusb-0.1. It is a lightweight library that can be efficientlyintegrated into applications of any kind, with several new features.

Backwards compatibilitylibusb-1.0 is not backwards compatible with libusb-0.1 - all functionnames are different, etc. However, libusb-1.0 is designed to be happilyinstallable alongside libusb-0.1 (even in the default configuration) sothe lack of backwards compatibility is not really a problem - users canhave both libusb versions present on the same system without conflict.

That said, a libusb-compat-0.1 compatibility layer does exist. Thisis a "wrapper" which converts libusb-0.1 function calls to their 1.0equivalents. For more info, see LibusbCompat0.1.